Kitamura's Quotes

#1. Set in a nameless colonial country, in an unspecified era, Katie Kitamura's second novel tracks the fortunes of a landowning family during the first waves of civil unrest.

Sarah Hall

#2. People were capable of living their lives in a state of permanent disappointment, there were plenty of people who did not marry the person they hoped to marry, much less live the life they hoped to live, other people invented new dreams to replace the old ones, finding fresh reasons for discontent.

Katie Kitamura

#3. It may be no substitute ... and might just be an unwanted favor ... but it meant a lot to you, right? You shouldn't break something that's important to you. Don't ever try to erase your most precious feelings, okay?

Hinako Ashihara

#4. Ultimately I'm making movies because of the producers and I don't want to disappoint my producer. It's always a tough balance to figure out how far I listen to them though.

Ryuhei Kitamura

#5. Wherever I make a movie, no matter what size it is, it's always about a straightforward communication with the producer.

Ryuhei Kitamura

#6. Nothing is more obscene to me than the glorification of suffering.

Marty Rubin

#7. If I could finance my own movies, I would be doing it.

Ryuhei Kitamura

#8. For new bands, I think a major label is the safest place to be. Independent labels are the ones getting away with murder. A lot of them are hobbyists who rip-off young bands, taking advantage of people who would never get signed to a major.

Jack White

#9. For a long time, they sat without speaking. The air outside was filled with the lilting sound of sparrows, the buzz of traffic on Main Street, and under that the faint lapping of waves on the lakeshore. Lou smiled. It wasn't the same, but it was better.
And better, Lou thought, is a start.

Danika Stone

#10. L God did not send his Son into the world m to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18. n Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not o believed in the name of the only Son of God.

Anonymous

#11. I do not adjust my standpoint to others expactations.

Marko Burazor

#12. Love had a thousand shapes.

Virginia Woolf

#13. I've been on a lot of shows that nobody cared about.

James Denton

#14. Well . . . he don't bite and he don't bide, so fuck him.

Stephen King

#15. I believe Korea is making the best movies. Only in Korea - you can do whatever you want to without any rating system or whatever. They can make world-class karate movies and make lots of money, which is very important.

Ryuhei Kitamura

#16. life rarely finds its exact likeness in a novel, that is hardly fiction's purpose,

Katie Kitamura

#17. In the end, what is a relationship but two people, and between two people there will always be room for surprises and misapprehensions, things that cannot be explained. Perhaps another way of putting it is that between two people, there will always be room for failures of imagination.

Katie Kitamura

#18. The Hollywood system has its own problems. Movie making is never an easy job.

Ryuhei Kitamura

#19. Producers say things that they would like to see in the movie but they don't see the full picture. In the end if you ignore everything the producers say, of course, you get fired; but then if you listen to a producer on everything then it's like 'Hey - why don't you direct your own movie?'

Ryuhei Kitamura

#20. It doesn't matter where you make movies or what the size of the movie you make is. It's a very hard job - especially director.

Ryuhei Kitamura

#21. It was a terrible thing, to love and not know whether you were loved in return, it led to the worst sensations--jealousy, rage, self-loathing--to all these lesser states.

Katie Kitamura

#22. I don't really consider myself a horror director or a violent director at all.

Ryuhei Kitamura

#23. Producers don't like the director who ignores their opinion - but I always try not to be the nicest person when making a movie. It's easy to do that. Just say 'Yes sir', Alright', 'Okay' - but they're not seeing the movie because if they can, they should be directing the movie.

Ryuhei Kitamura

#24. Hollywood industry people are very spoiled. I don't think they can adjust to the insane, no-money, super-hard working tradition of Japanese filmmaking. I don't think any American can go through that. They don't want to work more than twelve hours and they want Saturday and Sunday off.

Ryuhei Kitamura